February Gardening - What to do in February ?

Vegetables:

February is the time to prepare for Winter crops and vegetable patches. Sow carrots, parsnips, beetroot, spinach, peas, cauliflower and cabbage. Build up the soil first with peat, compost, Thrive Lime for calcium and Thrive All Purpose for an even balance of plant food.

Continue taking laterals off your Tomatoes and harvesting ripe Tomatoes making sure to remove any fallen or diseased fruit to prevent disease spreading.

Side dress all winter maturing vegetables with Thrive All Purpose.

Lift early crops of potatoes when the tops die off. Make sure they are properly dried before storing. Lift, dry and store garlic, shallots and onions. Hang up inside to ripen before cleaning and storing.

Lawn Care:

Start your application of Diazanon now for your treatment of Grass Grub.

Prepare the ground now for sowing an Autumn lawn.

Check the sharpness of your lawn mower blades, if the blades are blunt they will damage the grass and this can cause disease problems. fruit.jpg

Fruit:

Feed citrus trees with Thrive Citrus Food. Water under and around the tree first and immediately after to prevent burning of the feeder roots.